Pause: Anchored in Jesus Through Every Circumstance

So what we do as a church is we take the bread that represents the body of Jesus. That Jesus came to show us how good God is, how faithful God is, how true God is through laying down his life for me and you. Gave up his body for me and you. We take the bread in remembrance of what Jesus did together as one. Together we drink the juice that represents the blood that was shed for us as a ransom payment for our sin and the thing that breaks us from God to restore us, to rescue us. We do that together as one. [00:57:18] (38 seconds)  #CommunionTogether

So in all things, we're to be joyful. In all circumstances, to give thanks because this is the will of God for your life and my life. Your circumstances don't define it. Jesus does. [00:32:16] (18 seconds)  #JoyInAllCircumstances

That God is the same yesterday, today, and always. So maybe the tension isn't that God changes, maybe it's we're missing the point in our circumstances. Because then what happens is is David missed something. It's not David's fault. He just didn't get to experience it. But later on in God's story in the New Testament, at this point, Jesus had come and, [00:28:17] (21 seconds)  #GodNeverChanges

Here's the thing, there's a piece of me that fully understands why David wrote the way he wrote. Because when I take my eyes off Jesus, my eyes start going towards my circumstances. I start looking at my relationships that are good or bad in that moment. I started looking at, my finances that are good or bad in that moment. I started thinking of tragedies and triumphs and I just started thinking of everything that life brings and when my eyes get off Jesus and I focus on those things, what I start doing is thinking, God must be good there and not good there. [00:55:10] (44 seconds)  #FixYourEyesOnJesus

When the call of God into his church is to follow Jesus and Jesus alone. Communion is that reminder. No matter no matter what's going on in your life, no matter what's going on in my life, no matter what struggles or good things are taking place, Jesus is the one we are anchored to and that Jesus is the one we fix our eyes on and Jesus is the only one alone that brings us the life that God gives us. And so we take communion as a reminder that no matter what the circumstances, God is faithful. God is good. God is true. [00:56:34] (44 seconds)  #AnchoredInChrist

And what we do is we start looking at our circumstances and those circumstances start, defining for us who God is. I don't think we're alone in that. In my reading plan, when I spend time in scripture each day, it takes me through different sections of scripture. I don't read it just like from start to finish. My reading plan kinda takes me through some some Old Testament and some New Testament, and then it always has me reading at least one Psalm a day. And if you read the Psalms and you start recognizing, you know, the the similar authors, you're gonna start wondering, like, what's wrong with these guys? [00:25:27] (35 seconds)  #CircumstancesDontDefineGod

So as we're singing these songs, we're singing words that reflect who God is and what God has done. It's interesting, we can come to a church service and we can sing these songs and it may make us feel good. They may remind us of who God is but then we kind of get into life and we kind of forget these words. We forget the truth of who God is. [00:25:04] (24 seconds)  #RememberThroughWorship

Because they just say some really crazy things. And so one of my favorites is this, you know, in Psalms, there's Psalm twenty two and twenty three, and they're written by the same guy. In Psalm 22, it's written by David. This is how he starts writing his Psalm. He's dealing with stuff in life and he's sitting down writing these this poetic literature as a reflection to his situation, relationship with God. And he says this in Psalm 22 verse one. It says, my God, my God, [00:26:01] (30 seconds)  #Psalm22Question